If this is how Apple retires a product like HyperCard they missed a golden opportunity. Rather than slinking away into the night they could have turned it into an opportunity to endorse a logical successor.
Here, here. Remember what Amelio supposedly implied - that if Apple hasn't dropped HC, that the WWW today would be based on HC.. I myself would have preferred WWW being based on a combination on HC and NewtonScript/NewtonBooks, but that's the past [or an alternate universe, if you believe the Everett interpretation of QM ;-)
IMO, Apple should have implemented HC directly into the OS, with application control support built in. If Apple had done this, they would have had "Desktop Programming" (something even simpler than Applescript Studio, which requires xCode after all - it isn't integrated into the Finder), Apple Events, QuicKeys-like functionality, and God-knows what else, *years* before now, and years before MS even had any idea close (they don't now though they *might* for Longhorn..).
Oh, the chances Apple had to "rule the computing world"..
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation
Jim Witte
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